Review: A Handbook on Hanging September 10, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, ModernBeachcombing recently stumbled upon and cannot now shut up about Charles Duff’s A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution (1928) in a Nonsuch reprint.* Yes, it gives a caricature of the history of hanging, while also communicating the case for and against abolition back in the days when the […]